West Ham’s manager crisis
Before yesterday’s capitulation you’d have thought any list of candidates being prepared to replace Graham Potter was fanciful thinking: Scare mongering even. But after the drubbing at the hands of a modest Tottenham side- who were made to look like world beaters- Graham Potter’s days must surely be numbered.
Can’t keep on blaming the players. However bad some of them, the buck stops with Potter as this was his side, his preseason and his selection.
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Theexpress.co.uk has produced their own truly shocking article listing ‘4 managers West Ham can turn to if Graham Potter sacked’ and seeing any of these at London Stadium would be a truly awful prospect. Is the club’s position so precarious and the board so inept as to think that – for three of the four at least – there would be any prospect of an improvement?
What West Ham need now is another Moyesiah. What the Daily Express suggests is the scary cocktail of either Jose Mourinho, Frank Lampard, Sean Dyche or Gareth Southgate.
Shoot me now. The only crumb of comfort I their whole article is that the Express admits that “one problem is that the jobless Southgate said last month when asked if he has plans to return to football any time soon: “Not at the moment, I’m very much enjoying my life.”
Thank heaven for that: That’s at least put that particular temptation out of David Sullivan’s way*.*
The danger of the groundswell of fan protest is that Sullivan, Brady and the board will see Graham Potter as their sacrificial lamb to chuck to the baying mob and thus doing what they are good at. Deflecting blame away from themselves as usual.
Appointing Sean Dyche or – worse- an inept Frank Lampard will only push the crisis a few months down the line. Seeing Mourinho as the best of a bad lot shows the predicament in which our famous club finds itself.
Dark days ahead, Hammers fans.